Sunday, 13 December 2009

Thank you for all the great entries last week - we had fun checking them all out. :)

Next week we have something to show you - new image..so don't forget to check in next Sunday too. :)

Hopefully you are all getting sorted for the Festive Period and your card list is getting smaller..:) To help you with your card making, our Challenge this week is :-

Simply a Christmas Card. A nice easy one this week. :)

The prize shall be 1 week GDT and a Crafty Pad digi stamp

that the DT shall be working with too. :) :)

If you use a Crafty Pad stamp then your name is entered twice.

If you do not use a Crafty Pad stamp then your name is entered once.

It is the last week for our very lovely Sylvia to be with us. I would just like to say she has been a fantastic GDT and it has been a huge pleasure for us to work with her and I do hope we can work together again. :) Thank you Sylvia. :)

Please welcome the lovely Katie as this weeks GDT - it has been fun to work with Katie too - thanks for joining with us. :)

Right - on with the fabulous inspiration from the wonderfully talented DT and GDT girls. :) :)

Sylvia - has made this gorgeous circular card using nesties and the Christmas Ted Bauble Text stamp - she also cut off one of the wee snowflakes from a Christmas Ted stamp to randomly stamp it over her card - clever eh. :)

Katie - has made this lovely fun card using Christmas Ted - Sleding and her use of the puffy paint to create the snow is brilliant. :)

Maxine - has made 2 cards this week - this beautiful bauble shaped card, using Percy Penguin sleding. It looks like it is ready to hang on the tree. :)

and also this fabby shaker card, using Percy Sleding - all nice and glittery.

Rozzy - had made this gorgeous card using Percy Stargazing - he looks so chilled there all ready for the festive period. :)

Debbie - has made 2 cards this week. :) The first card is an easel card, following Maxine's tutorial HERE. She has used Percy Penguin Sleding, but used 2 images to layer together to give the effect of two sleding down the slope. :)

The second one from Debbie is a Shaker Card - Christmas Ted - Sleding stamp has been used for this card. The actual bubble/dome has been recycled from a Chocolate Tree decoration packet. :)

All entries to be in by Saturday 8PM GMT.

Please do go and visit the personal blogs of all the DT & GDT's (links are in the side bar)

You will find all the information on how they created their examples. :)

Saturday, 12 December 2009

My wall Plaque was made using a saved 10" pizza base which you will find on most supermarket bought pizzas, It would be best if it was the polystyrene type base, its lighter and easy to work with.

1. I use some light sticky tape to position the base on my mat (stop it sliding around)
Measure 5cm from centre top and draw a line across.

Do the same from the bottom, you now have two lines across the base, you can use scissors or craft knife or guillotine to cut off the excess. You are left with a nice shape to work don't throw the excess away - there are lots of things you can do with it. I use it for tags, mounting sentiments etc if I need a raised effect.

2. At this stage I've used A4 card (you can use paper if you prefer) and double sided tape to adhere the card to the base, just cut around with scissors, decorate as required, but before adding anything that is too raised turn the base over and add your ribbon for hanging.

3. Once decorated cover the back with card or paper to cover brad's ribbons etc. cut round the shape and hey presto you have your wall plaque.

Hope my little tutorial makes sense to you. I promise it's a simple project but it cost's next to nothing and looks so pretty when finished.

Enjoy Crafting

Suzi xx

Please let us know what you think of this tutorial
and how easy is it to follow. ;)